Also a great afternoon for prompt service & no lines at most any retailer. But for the fact that I'm sick, I'd be looking forward to going bodysurfing at 3 pm & having the whole beach to myself.
February 8, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Also a great afternoon for prompt service & no lines at most any retailer. But for the fact that I'm sick, I'd be looking forward to going bodysurfing at 3 pm & having the whole beach to myself.
Worst day of my life was when a friend and I went bodysurfing off Balboa Island in late February. The water had been tolerable the week before but there was one of those upwellings and we were young and stupid and stayed in anyways.
No real surf, either. Total bummer.
February 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Worst day of my life was when a friend and I went bodysurfing off Balboa Island in late February. The water had been tolerable the week before but there was one of those upwellings and we were young and stupid and stayed in anyways.
little book, he hoped to help more people enjoy the "superb sport" of bodysurfing. "Most people who have spent their vacations at the beaches, and who have been fortunate enough to have become expert surf swimmers, state that it is beyond doubt their favorite sport," he writes.
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
little book, he hoped to help more people enjoy the "superb sport" of bodysurfing. "Most people who have spent their vacations at the beaches, and who have been fortunate enough to have become expert surf swimmers, state that it is beyond doubt their favorite sport," he writes.
stretch of Maine coast, so who knows - maybe bodysurfing is super popular in other places, and those of us who do it in the chilly Maine waters are a bunch of weird freaks. However, Drummond says plenty of things I do agree with, noting that many attempt to bodysurf, but few succeed. In writing his
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
stretch of Maine coast, so who knows - maybe bodysurfing is super popular in other places, and those of us who do it in the chilly Maine waters are a bunch of weird freaks. However, Drummond says plenty of things I do agree with, noting that many attempt to bodysurf, but few succeed. In writing his
Drummond confidently predicts that bodysurfing will grow in popularity, because it is the purest form of surfing. But my observation, almost 100 years later, is that fewer people than ever are doing it even while board surfing has grown in popularity.
That's based on years of visiting the same
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Drummond confidently predicts that bodysurfing will grow in popularity, because it is the purest form of surfing. But my observation, almost 100 years later, is that fewer people than ever are doing it even while board surfing has grown in popularity.
I've long been interested in writing an essay about bodysurfing on the Maine coast, and this week I picked up a copy of The Art of Wave Riding, published in 1931, a short how-to written by a Los Angeles lifeguard named Ron Drummond.
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I've long been interested in writing an essay about bodysurfing on the Maine coast, and this week I picked up a copy of The Art of Wave Riding, published in 1931, a short how-to written by a Los Angeles lifeguard named Ron Drummond.
Had a very weird dream that I got tickets to the DC Taskmaster show but everyone in the audience except me was a White House staffer. All men with exceptional manicures. Greg and LAH were constantly threatened with deportation to Somalia while Zouks failed at bodysurfing.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Had a very weird dream that I got tickets to the DC Taskmaster show but everyone in the audience except me was a White House staffer. All men with exceptional manicures. Greg and LAH were constantly threatened with deportation to Somalia while Zouks failed at bodysurfing.
At the risk of sounding dramatic, swimming (and bodysurfing) in the sea has changed my life. I have become fitter, made new friends and vastly improved my mental health. There is a stillness I find there that I have never found anywhere else.
At the risk of sounding dramatic, swimming (and bodysurfing) in the sea has changed my life. I have become fitter, made new friends and vastly improved my mental health. There is a stillness I find there that I have never found anywhere else.